Nikki Rutter, an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Durham University, who specialises in child behaviour, told the BBC in July: “We have a huge amount of evidence that parenting orders aren’t effective. It’s why we’re seeing the decrease in them. The police know these are not effective measures.”

So this is about appearing to do something while doing nothing of essence and throwing poor families under the bus. Sounds very on form for this government/electorate.